Picture This: Mike Grosshandler in the Cafe (Update)

Episode 152 is all about local guitar slinger/singer-songwriter Mike Grosshandler and his recent solo release “Blue Skies Black“. During the interview, there’s barely mention to Cafe host Mike Guzzo and I of his current hard rock band project Above The Flood, or of The Velmas, one of the areas longest tenured original bands. Or any other stuff he did before.

Well, ok, over the three years of work on the album, Mike did find time to give readers of this blog some insights on the recording process as a contributor. And yes, some stuff did come up in the course of discussion on who played on the recordings. It was all Mike. Except for horns by Bill Scholl on one track, and vocals by Phil Taylor (Future Leaders of the World, Machina) on another. And drummers, which he went through like Spinal Tap. Six different drummers – Mike Maenza, Ricky Little, Tom Sposato, John Brodeur, Chris Fisher, and Melanie Krahmer.

Two lightly massaged acoustic songs were recorded in the CRUMBS Cafe Studio – “Without You” and a brand new song, “So Long”, makes its debut on CRUMBS Cafe. “Status Quo”and “Fish in the Sea” were ripped directly from the cd.

It was also all about me taking photos while Mike recorded, as CRUMBS go-to photoman Rich Krissel was all about taking photos elsewhere.

UPDATE2: Mike Grosshandler’s episode upload was lost to the clouds, then was found, but too late for last weeks show. To fill the air time slot, encore presentations of Episode 146 with Holly & Evan and Episode 127 with Sea of Trees were aired. However, both iTunes and mp3 downloadable versions of Mike’s episode are available here and here.

Apologies to Mike and those that tuned in.

Episode 152 with Mike Grosshandler is scheduled and will really air on the Friday, June 29th broadcast. An encore presentation of Episode 152 with Mike Grosshandler follows at 9:30pm.

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Andrew Gregory

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